Do you change Grandma's recipes?

[Willie84]

If you use your Grandmother's recipes, do you change them at all? Do you update the ingredients?

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

Until I developed an allergy to all dairy products, no I didn't change them (I have all of my Grannie's recipes and her recipe folder + book). Her more modern recipes I need to change/modify now because of the dairy, but ironically a lot of her older recipes, I don't need to change because of WWII rationing.

 

[Verity Darkwaters]

No I do not change my grandmother's recipes. They are perfect they way they are. Well I suppose that is not true. I have bought a cheaper brand of something though the ingredient is the same. I am not sure if that counts or not.

 

[Ellyn]

Funnily enough, in my family the recipes were passed down from the men. Do I change my grandfather's recipes? Well, it was so obviously already changed from my great-great-grandfather by the time it got to me, so why not? I mean... spaghetti in the tomato sauce, rather than being served on the side, is apparently a New World thing and not a European thing--but that, and adding the Spanish chorizo that definitely is not Italian, and then adding favorite local brands (thankfully, from companies that are still going strong a generation later) to be written down in the recipe book... So, yes, I totally experiment with it and I expect any descendants of mine to do the same.

 

[firelily99]

No, I leave them alone and with most of my mother's recipes its the same thing for me. With my mom's egg and potato salad I do put far fewer eggs in it but otherwise its the same recipe.

 

[Indigo02]

For the most part, no. My baked mac and cheese is based on hers but tweaked in various ways. That's about the only thing I've ever changed.

 

[Caribbean girl]

No. I do not change my grandmother's recipes. Actually, I basically learned to cook from my mother, and the recipes she used were passed down from her mother (my grandmother). I usually follow what she taught me, or what I observed her doing. If there is another way of doing things, I will have to experiment for myself, but I feel more comfortable doing it the way I learned it from them. I guess I would have to observe how others do things, or watch more cooking programs on TV to get other ideas. In fact, I do watch some cooking programs from time to time, but I have never tried it the way they do it. I may just get bold enough one of these days to get out of the old way of doing things, and try doing things a bit differently; I may just like the change.